I live in Algeria, and we can't use credit cards here, my bank account doesn't support debit cards transfer and if I veer receive 10$ from outside the country, then I'm in for 1 day of questioning the resources for those money, This is a great use case for my country and great initiative from Stripe, Thank you.
I'm from Tunisia, a country with heavy currency controls, where it is actually impossible to send money out of the country. Of course, if you're a foreign company etc. you can, but not for regular citizens.
So what does that mean? No credit cards online, no bank transfers, no PayPal, and so on. I hope this service can somehow help aspiring local entrepreneurs.
The only way I can think of is Western Union. But the fees are ridiculously high. Even then, the sender is the receiver. I'm not sure how that would work.
I'd be interested to hear how this works out for you too! I live in New York, but my father's family is in Bejaia and a lot of them have similar problems.
